Word: ballerinas
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...large. In one charming vignette, a great-bellied guru beats time as he teaches a tiny girl some basic gestures of Indian classical dance. Much of a segment on stage performance compares Bando Tamasaburo, a Kabuki star who excels in female roles, with Larissa Lezhnina, a dazzling young ballerina of Russia's Kirov Ballet. In surprisingly complementary ways, their performances -- his in a dance-drama called Dojoji, hers in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty -- embody Eastern and Western ideals of womanhood...
...touch of Shakespearean drama with Hasty Pudding theatricals, the ever predictable evil stepsisters are not so predictable. In the first scene of Act I, the stepsisters enter the stage dauntingly tall, grotesquely covered in makeup, and shockingly clumsy, heavy and graceless. If this contrast to the traditional, petite, lithesome ballerina did not tune one in, the exposure of bulging arms and gigantic hands by the middle of the act confirm that these step "sisters", brilliantly performed by Todd Eric Allen and Howard Merlin, are simply not women...
...perfect pastime for the chummy, cuddly, slightly corny Clinton years. The trend was already gathering steam when Billy Ray Cyrus' 1992 hit Achy Breaky Heart spawned a line dance called the Achy Breaky. Now new ones are being made up every day. Kirsten Bonn, a former ballerina who teaches line-dancing classes at Denim & Diamonds, estimates that there are more than a thousand variations...
...first of the postwar ballet superstars, vastly increasing the dance audience. It is no exaggeration to say he burst upon the West, defecting in Paris at age 23 after being ordered back to the U.S.S.R. in the middle of a Kirov Ballet tour. His partnership with Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina of London's Royal Ballet, was the most famous of the century: her ineffable femininity, his feral grace. She called him "a young lion leaping," and wild he was. His tempers were fearsome, his demands insatiable. Unwilling to settle with one company, he put no limits on his own worth...
Talya Salant '95, a Harvard ballerina who works with professional companies in Boston, has another point of view. Salant draws attention to the fact that the performing arts in general at Harvard are not given as much emphasis as academics or athletics. The Dance Program, in particular, she feels, is "neglected and embarrassing...